I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time. Nelly Furtado More Quotes by Nelly Furtado More Quotes From Nelly Furtado When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good. Nelly Furtado follow-your-heart winning heart Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well. Nelly Furtado live-well together art We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact. Nelly Furtado anxiety generations lonely You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct. Nelly Furtado intention fall thinking Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring Nelly Furtado awe-inspiring mystical music-is Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations. Nelly Furtado connections legacy nature Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake. Nelly Furtado artistic decision mistake It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album! Nelly Furtado summertime parent men I often think about the idea that augmentation has become the new normal. When you start to augment and filter yourself because you think you should, you're kind of putting your worth in other people's hands, rather than having that worth come from within. Nelly Furtado hands ideas thinking I believe the future will reflect different body types, ethnicities, cultures and sexual orientations. I've been working with a lot of young artists who really project an androgynous and inclusive approach to the world. I'm very inspired by that. Nelly Furtado ethnicity artist believe I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to. Nelly Furtado marketing jobs thinking I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind. Nelly Furtado evil believe thinking When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself. Nelly Furtado branding concerned When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this." Nelly Furtado void like-you voice I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang. Nelly Furtado yang too-much energy I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included. Nelly Furtado mainstream-society hopeful facts There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic. Nelly Furtado laughter brain believe All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business. Nelly Furtado elements fighting strong I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy. Nelly Furtado masculine-and-feminine men believe I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves. Nelly Furtado differences broken people
